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HOMER (?8th century B.C.). Opus utrumque Homeri Iliados et Odysseae, in Greek. Edited by Jacob Micyllus (1503-58) and Joachim Camerarius (1500-74). Basel: Johann Hervagius, 1541.
2 parts in one, 2 (272 x 172mm). Text with commentary surround, c+3 missigned c+4. Separate title, foliation and quiring for each part. Four printer's devices, one on title and final verso of each part, woodcut ornamental and historiated initials. (Browned, some spotting, occasional marginal tears.) Contemporary German pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, panelled with heads-in-medallion and allegorical-figure rolls, two fore-edge clasps (rubbed, head and foot of spine worn). Provenance: Walter Philip Anton Werthern (armorial stamp); Martin Crusius (1526-1607, extensively annotated from 1547 to 1606); J.M. Moscheusch (title inscription recording gift to:); Knigsmann; Johann Christopher, Baron Bartenstein (engraved armorial bookplate).
MARTIN CRUSIUS'S COPY, EXTENSIVELY ANNOTATED BY HIM IN PREPARATION FOR HIS EXTENSIVE COMMENTARY ON THE WORKS OF HOMER AND FOR PUBLIC LECTURES DELIVERED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TBINGEN. Having completed his studies at Strassburg, Crusius became professor of Greek and Latin at the University of Tbingen in 1559. Owing to his brilliant teaching, which attracted a regular influx of Greeks and scholars to the university, Crusius was recognised as the main proponent of philhellenism in Europe. Crusius was also the author of the first German commentary on all of Homer, and the present volume, with its copious annotations, meticulously documents Crusius's study of Homer.
Clusius acquired the present volume during his studies at Strassburg, attested by his earliest inscription in the book, dated 23 June 1547 when he was only 21. As one might expect from a classical scholar with a tiny, neat hand, Crusius not only read with intensity and with reference to a wide range of secondary sources which he records here, but he fastidiously dated his readings. He began reading the text for the first time the day after he acquired it, on 24 June 1547 at Strassburg and he finished it on 18 November 1547. Subsequent readings were made for two series of public lectures on the text at Tbingen, and Crusius's dated notes stating when the lecture on each book or section was begun and completed enable one to follow the progress of the series. His first public lecture series on the works of Homer began on 24 January 1564 and ended on 14 March 1581; almost immediately after its completion he began a second series on 1 November 1581 for the same 17-year duration, ending on 4 February 1598. His last reading, perhaps private rather than public since the beginning date is not recorded, ended on 16 December 1606, only eight weeks before his death on 14 February 1607. While Crusius's scholarship is best documented in the volume, his personality is also glimpsed on occasion, such as when he records finishing book VI on 19 September 1565, then notes that it was his [39th] birthday. Adams H-750.
2 parts in one, 2 (272 x 172mm). Text with commentary surround, c+3 missigned c+4. Separate title, foliation and quiring for each part. Four printer's devices, one on title and final verso of each part, woodcut ornamental and historiated initials. (Browned, some spotting, occasional marginal tears.) Contemporary German pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, panelled with heads-in-medallion and allegorical-figure rolls, two fore-edge clasps (rubbed, head and foot of spine worn). Provenance: Walter Philip Anton Werthern (armorial stamp); Martin Crusius (1526-1607, extensively annotated from 1547 to 1606); J.M. Moscheusch (title inscription recording gift to:); Knigsmann; Johann Christopher, Baron Bartenstein (engraved armorial bookplate).
MARTIN CRUSIUS'S COPY, EXTENSIVELY ANNOTATED BY HIM IN PREPARATION FOR HIS EXTENSIVE COMMENTARY ON THE WORKS OF HOMER AND FOR PUBLIC LECTURES DELIVERED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TBINGEN. Having completed his studies at Strassburg, Crusius became professor of Greek and Latin at the University of Tbingen in 1559. Owing to his brilliant teaching, which attracted a regular influx of Greeks and scholars to the university, Crusius was recognised as the main proponent of philhellenism in Europe. Crusius was also the author of the first German commentary on all of Homer, and the present volume, with its copious annotations, meticulously documents Crusius's study of Homer.
Clusius acquired the present volume during his studies at Strassburg, attested by his earliest inscription in the book, dated 23 June 1547 when he was only 21. As one might expect from a classical scholar with a tiny, neat hand, Crusius not only read with intensity and with reference to a wide range of secondary sources which he records here, but he fastidiously dated his readings. He began reading the text for the first time the day after he acquired it, on 24 June 1547 at Strassburg and he finished it on 18 November 1547. Subsequent readings were made for two series of public lectures on the text at Tbingen, and Crusius's dated notes stating when the lecture on each book or section was begun and completed enable one to follow the progress of the series. His first public lecture series on the works of Homer began on 24 January 1564 and ended on 14 March 1581; almost immediately after its completion he began a second series on 1 November 1581 for the same 17-year duration, ending on 4 February 1598. His last reading, perhaps private rather than public since the beginning date is not recorded, ended on 16 December 1606, only eight weeks before his death on 14 February 1607. While Crusius's scholarship is best documented in the volume, his personality is also glimpsed on occasion, such as when he records finishing book VI on 19 September 1565, then notes that it was his [39th] birthday. Adams H-750.